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Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 February 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

Can I just ask the Minister to reconsider, or at least explain, her argument that it is significant in this regard that different juries might come to different conclusions on the same or similar facts in different parts of the country, on one day or another? Is not her experience as a judge that that is an everyday event? Does she not consider that that is one reason why juries do not give reasons and are not asked for their reasons for any given decision that they make? Because it is a fact of life that we all accept.

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